Surprisingly incoherent and boring

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Here's another movie, let down by it's story, as if a desperate excuse for an action adventure comedy, which I still enjoyed. The movie hardly raised a laugh at all, although I did enjoy this slow moving flick, first seeing it a fifteen. Goldblum has many problems, like he does in other films, whether around flies, or being tall guys, whatever. He can't sleep, and his wife is cheating on him. He confides in his work colleague Ackroyd, who does ask him while in gridlock, "When was the last time you f...ed your wife?", and Goldblum's wife is pretty hot. Taking a midnight drive out to the airport, trouble comes crashing down on his hood in the form of sexy and fiesty Diana (Michelle Pfeifer), a struggling actress, who's taken of with these diamonds. The film, which was something different at the time, still manages to be very entertaining, but is just let down, of the weak strength of the story. Bruce Mcgill was kind of interesting as an Elvis impersonator, shouting some Elvis related while out at character, at Diana, that was unforgettable, as was Goldblum knocking down a fake wall on a film set. The film is an oddity, which does stand alone, where we really see a few directors act, but it such a shame the quality of the film suffers from it's unoriginal lightweight and story.

This is a film about finding adventure in your life and taking a risk doing it. "Into the Night" unfolds into a string of events from a chance meeting of two people who compliment each other as companions, even if they have different personalities and come from completely different backgrounds.Ed Okin--a bored urbanite with a dead end job and nothing new going on with the day to day, apart from his cheating wife--goes out for a neighborly spin in his car in the middle of the night and finds trouble in all the right places with a blond named Diana on the run from crazy Iranians and other goons looking to get back precious jewels she has. A partnership is made with one, Goldbloom, looking for danger and the other, Pfeiffer, trying to run away from it. This is the type of story that goes with the flow, neither aiming towards a set-in-stone direction, which gives the viewing experience of seeing new complications, characters and locations a spontaneous and unpredictable feel.This is a fun adventure story with mystery, action and some laugh out loud gags. There's candid violence, brief nudity and car chases to get the pulse pumping. This has trendy '80s music, including wild guitar solos and popping bass rhythms that doesn't help the movie step outside of 1985. "Into the Night" is a basic big-budgeter that doesn't serve a major purpose except to maybe sell the audience a this-could-be-you-if-applied-yourself fantasy. It's an entertaining movie to spice up a bored evening and escape with, as anything more and you might be disappointed.

In Los Angeles, the insomniac aerospace engineer Ed Okin (Jeff Goldblum) has a boring job and a cold relationship with his wife. One afternoon, Ed leaves his job earlier to rest and discovers that his wife Ellen (Stacey Pickren) is cheating him with her colleague Stan (Carmen Argenziano). During the night, Ed can not sleep and he decides to drive to the airport to kill time. When he parks in the garage of the airport, he sees a beautiful lady, Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer), chased by four Iranians. He helps her and drives away to her place. Sooner he discovers that Diana has smuggled six stones from Iran and now she is chased by the gang of Shaheen Parvici (Irene Papas) and by the dangerous British killer Colin Morris (David Bowie) that works for the French Monsieur Melville (Roger Vadim). Ed Okin has an unforgettable night with Diana."Into the Night" is one of my favorite movies of the 80's. I have just watched this film at least for the sixth time and Michelle Feiffer is stunningly gorgeous. The engaging story is funny and one attraction is to identify the cameo of directors and other personalities, such as David Cronenberg, John Landis, Don Siegel, Jonathan Demme, and Lawrence Kasdan working with names like Vera Miles, Irene Papas, David Bowie and Dan Aykroyd among others. The awesome music of B.B. King gives a touch of class to this wonderful film. My vote is nine.Title (Brazil): "Um Romance Muito Perigoso" ("A Very Dangerous Romance")

Upon discovering that his wife is having an affair, depressed insomniac Ed Okin (Jeff Goldblum) drives to the airport where he is surprised by a beautiful jewel smuggler, Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer), who lands on his car and begs him to drive her away from four Iranian secret police agents who are chasing her. She persuades him to drive her to various locations, and he becomes embroiled in her predicament. After becoming increasingly exasperated with her demands, he discovers that Diana has smuggled priceless emeralds from the Shah of Iran's treasury into the country, and is being pursued by various assorted assailants, including the aforementioned SAVAK agents and a British hit-man (David Bowie).The couple's caper gets increasingly out of hand, until Diana is eventually taken hostage by the SAVAK thugs at the airport; here, Ed finally comes into his own, saving the day and curing his insomnia and acute boredom in the process.